Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park

Welcome or Croeso, 

Cardigan Island is the Domain of the Dolphin, Cradle of the Seals. 
Come and visit Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park near Cardigan town in Ceredigion, West Wales.

Cardigan Island is in the southern half of Cardigan Bay, 2 miles from Pembrokeshire, 33 miles from Tenby. 

Visitors enjoy beautiful scenery, an island nature reserve, dramatic cliffs, clear blue sea, maritime flowers. 

See bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic grey seals, seal pups, harbour porpoises, sea-birds, rare choughs and skylarks. 

Meet our friendly farm animals including Dilwyn the donkey, pigs, sheep, goats, rare breed cattle, jersey cow, Shetland ponies, Welsh mountain ponies, rabbits, guinea pigs.

We also have some friendly animals from further afield, such as, Australian wallabies ( say G'day to Bruce, Sheila and young Joey! ); Vietnamese pigs and piglets; emus, rhea and Llinos the llama ( Careful! She occasionally spits her food out!! Not very good table manners, but very funny if she spits at Mum or Dad! )

NEW! Frizbee Fun!

Kids can have extra fun in the adventure playground, sand pit, picnic areas. 

 

Seals  A colony of Atlantic Grey Seals breed in the many caves that are located beneath the farm park's cliffs and around Cardigan Island. The seals are seen virtually every day that the park is open, from March to the beginning of November. The seals are seen "bottling" or floating vertically in the sea, at most times, staring back at the "strange visitors" standing on the cliff tops!

At low tide, especially in warm weather, the seals can often be seen "hauled out", sunning themselves, on exposed rocks.

There is a large, flat rock between the park and the island called Carreg Lydan ('Broad Rock' in English) which sometimes has as many as 20 seals basking on it.


The unique shape of the coast here, being right-angled with the island stretched across the corner, ensures that there is always sheltered calm water on one side. The seals invariably move a few yards to the sheltered side. There are good viewing points on both sides of the corner. 

The Welsh name for a seal is "morlo" - literally "sea-calf" since the seal's head resembles that of a calf. Interestingly, the German name is "seehund" or "sea dog". The reason is that the seals generally seen in the Baltic and North Sea Coasts off Germany are common seals and not Atlantic greys. The common seal has a smaller head with a more pointed nose, resembling a dog. 




All these and more can be seen at Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park, Gwbert, Cardigan, Ceredigion, West Wales, UK, SA43 1PR.

Open March 26th to November 3rd 2007, inclusive. Then closed until March 17th 2008.

10.00am to 6.00pm every day.

2007 Prices: 

£3.50 [14 yrs and over];
£3.20 [ OAPs];
£2.50 [ 2 to 13 yrs];
Free [ Under 2 yrs]
Prices include V.A.T